Improvement in weather-strips



COLEMAN HIC-KjSfOE LANCASTER., KENTUCKY.

Letters Patent No. 108,480, dated October 18, 1870; antedated October 8,1870.4

IMPROVEMENT IN WEATHER-STRIPS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesauneA I, COLEMAAY HICKS, of Lancaster, in the county ot' Gerrard, inthe State ot' Kentucky, have invented certain Improvements inWeather-Strips for the Doors of Houses, of which the following is a.specification.

My invention relates to the construction and operation of a simple bar,in.such a manner that, from the inside of the door of a house, it may beeasily raised from its resting-place within the carpet-strip, and, whenso raised, it shall prevent the ingress into the house of rain, dust,wind, and snow, and at the same time perform the otice ofa safety-bar,to prevent the opening of the door in case the lock should be picked byburglars.

In the accompanying drawing- Figure l represents a front view of a doorfrom the interior of droom, with my improvement attached, theweather-strip being down.

Figure 2, a side View of the bar or weather-strip.

Figure 3, a side view ofthe rod,.with its knob, hook, and catch, bywhich the weather-strip is raised'and Figure 4, a front view ofthegrooved bed-piece.

Figure 5, alike view of the lower part of a door with my improvementattached, the weather-strip being up.

In the use of my strip, the carpet-sill should be made in two parts. Theouter part should extend inwardly, so as to be iiush with the innerfacings.

The inner part, C, should be inthe form shown in tig. 1, hollow on theunder side, and with an oblong recess, leaving room for theweather-strip S, tig. 2, to more up and down therein.

The weather-strip shown in iig. 2 should have the form and proportionsin that figure shown, and should have the two flanges r v1', which willprevent its being lforced entirely out of its recess. It is simply awide,

thin bar, a little longer than the space between the two facings ofthedoor-way. When it is up, so as to cover the space between the bottom ofthe door and the carpet-sill, of course neither rain, dust, nor snow canfind ingress, and the door cannot be opened.

I have heretofore obtained Letters Patent for a weather-strip of similarform, and for the same uses, dated August 17, 1869, but that strip wasoperated by springs seated under it, and such springs were set free by aspring-catch but the strip herein described is operated by entirelydifferent devices, and for these novel devices l now desire to haveLetters Patent.

Thestrip or bar is lifted and pushed down by means of the branched rod1', which has hooks, h h, upon the lower ends of the branches, which areinsel-ted 'in the holes e' c in the bar S.

The upper end of the rod fr is provided with a knob or handle, K, bywhich it is operated-(and a catchpiu i.. A

This rod r should be made of' steel or other sultablc metal, so that,when bent out of a right linein use it will spring to its original formwhen the force bending it has been withdrawn. It should be confined toits position by the pieces d and ff, winch may he fastened to the doorby screw-bolts, or otherwise.. p

For the use of the catch-'pin i, a giooved bed-piece of met-al or otherhard substance should belet into` the door, and fastened there, andshould have two holes, m and n, in it, for the catch-pin to enter, asshown in the drawing, so that, when the catch-pin is in thc lower hole,n', the weather-strip will be down in its recess, and cannot be raiseduntilthe catch is drawn out by the knob K; and when it sha-ll be sodrawn out, the catch may be forced up the groove in the bed-piece c,raising with it the strip S, until the catch-reaches and entersV thehole in, when the strip will he fast up above the carpet-sill.

The operation is so simple that a child may perform it.

First, by the knob K, spring the rod c', and pull the catch-pin t out ofeither of the two holes in which it vmay be seated at the time, andpushit upward or downward in the groove until it reaches and enters thehole.

Theinner piece of the carpet-sill is provided with recesses, e e, in itsupper edge, so that, when the strip is down in its proper recess, thedoor may be opened and shut, and the hooks h; it will pass in and out ofthe` hole c' e' without diiieulty, and scarcely touching.

This dev-ice for ,operating the weather-strip will occupy but littlelspace, and will be an ornament to the door, rather than otherwise; 'andit can be 'operated with nearly the same facility as the ordinary latchoi' a door. v

NVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The spring rod r, with its catch-pin, 1'-, piecescl and f f, knob K, andhooks h 7i, in combination with the Y bedepicce c, weather-stripI S, andsection C of the carpet-sill, all constructed, arranged, and operatedsnbstantially as and for the purpose described.

COLEMAN HICKS.

Witnesses:

. J. l?. SANDIEER,

Roer. KINNAIRD.

